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- WinZip(R) version 8.0
- Copyright (C) 2000 WinZip Computing, Inc.
- All Rights Reserved
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- Major changes in Version 8.0
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- WinZip 8.0 includes significant enhancements for all WinZip
- users, whether novice or advanced. The new Zip and E-Mail
- feature zips documents and folders and attaches the Zip file to
- an e-mail message without leaving Explorer. The greatly enhanced
- Wizard can now create and update Zip files, as well as extract
- and install from MIME and similar encoded files (great for e-mail
- attachments). Improvements to the WinZip Classic interface make
- it more Windows-like than ever; for example, an optional
- Explorer-style toolbar is available, and, when creating or updating
- an archive, WinZip automatically stores the same subfolders and
- folder information that Windows Explorer would use for a similar
- copy operation. And installing those very popular desktop themes
- and screen savers from Internet downloads has always been a
- difficult and cumbersome process, but WinZip's new automatic
- theme and screen saver installer makes it easy.
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- Details on these and many other enhancements follow.
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- Enhanced WinZip Wizard
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- - WinZip Wizard functionality has been extended to allow you to
- create and update Zip files from the Wizard. After the initial
- Welcome panel, the Wizard displays a new Select Activity panel;
- from here, you specify whether you want to unzip/install,
- update an existing archive, or create a new archive. Like the
- existing Unzip/Install Wizard, the new Add Wizard is designed
- to make the most common operations easy and convenient.
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- - The Wizard can now extract and install from MIME and other
- encoded files. This makes processing of e-mail attachments
- from online service such as AOL and CompuServe easier for
- Wizard users.
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- - The Wizard now supports automatic installation of desktop
- themes and screen savers (see below for more information).
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- More Windows-like interface
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- - When you click the right mouse button on a file in the
- archive contents list, the context menu now displays any
- associated actions for the type of file selected. For example,
- right-clicking on a .DOC file (Microsoft Word document) might
- display "Open", "Print", and "New". As in Explorer, hold down
- the Shift key while clicking the right mouse button to add an
- "Open With ..." choice to the menu. This menu item allows you
- to choose the application you wish to use to open the selected
- file.
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- - Inclusion of subfolders when adding, updating, etc., is now
- automatic and mirrors Explorer's treatment of subfolders. You
- no longer have to check the "Include subfolders" checkbox;
- instead, WinZip determines when to include subfolders using the
- same logic that Explorer does. Specifically:
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- 1) When individual files are added, WinZip does not look in
- subfolders for files with the same name.
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- 2) When a folder is added, WinZip always adds the contents of
- all its subfolders, just as Explorer always copies all
- subfolders when you copy a folder.
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- The "Include subfolders" option in the Add dialog box is still
- available if wildcards (* or ?) are used in the filename field.
- This allows you to, for example, zip all *.DOC files in a
- folder tree with a single operation.
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- WinZip automatically stores the same path information that is
- copied when using drag and drop or copy and paste in the
- Windows Explorer.
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- - Optional new "Explorer-style" toolbar buttons are available.
- These Internet Explorer-like buttons are simpler in style than
- the traditional WinZip toolbar buttons and optionally appear
- in gray, changing to full color when the mouse pointer is on
- them.
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- - WinZip now displays a tooltip when a Zip file is selected in
- Windows Explorer. The tooltip shows how many files are in the
- archive and displays the archive comment, if there is one. If
- "View as Web Page" is enabled in Explorer, the information will
- instead appear in the description area of the web page. The
- Windows Desktop Update (Active Desktop) must be installed and
- WinZip shell extensions enabled in order to use this feature.
-
- - When you click the right mouse button on a file in the archive
- contents list, the pop-up menu now displays only file-related
- actions such as Extract. This is more consistent with general
- Windows conventions. Use the Actions or File menu for
- archive-related actions like Virus Scan.
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- - Under Windows 98 and Windows 2000, WinZip menus now display small
- icons corresponding to the menu items' toolbar buttons.
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- Desktop theme and screen saver support
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- - WinZip can install desktop themes and screen savers contained
- in Zip files. To use this feature, simply open a Zip file
- containing a theme or screen saver and click the Install
- button. WinZip will extract all necessary files to the
- appropriate folder(s) and then run the required system theme or
- screen saver support application to complete installation.
- Theme/screen saver installation is also supported by the WinZip
- Wizard. See online help ("Install Feature" topic) for complete
- information.
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- Other changes
-
- - Zip and E-Mail adds a new feature to the Windows Explorer
- context menu. To use the feature, simply select files or
- folders in Explorer and choose Zip and E-Mail from the pop-up
- menu. WinZip creates a Zip file containing the selected items
- and attaches it to a new e-mail message. The Zip file is
- automatically deleted when your e-mail program no longer needs
- it. This feature requires that a supported e-mail application
- such as Outlook be installed.
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- - WinZip can automatically display the Zip comment when opening
- a Zip file that contains a comment.
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- - When the open Zip contains a comment, WinZip displays a
- new icon on the Classic interface status line. You can
- click the icon to view and edit the comment.
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- - Most of WinZip's major dialogs now have "What's This?" help.
- Click on the question mark in the dialog's title bar, then
- click on a control for quick information about how it's used.
-
- - WinZip now displays an animated progress dialog during lengthy
- archive operations and can be minimized during such operations.
-
- - The Miscellaneous tab of the Configuration dialog has several
- new options, allowing you to:
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- - set the number of recently used files listed in the
- File menu,
- - enable or disable the theme/screen saver installer,
- - automatically show comments when opening Zip files,
- - enable or disable the animated status dialog used
- during long Zip operations, and
- - restore all warning messages that you have previously
- turned off.
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- - A new option in the System tab of the Configuration dialog
- allows you to control whether dialogs are shown when you drag
- and drop files from Explorer onto an archive or a WinZip
- window.
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- - The list of recently used files in the Classic mode File menu
- has been enhanced:
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- - The case and capitalization of files in the list adhere to
- the preferences you have selected for files in the main
- WinZip window.
-
- - WinZip no longer places in the list files that were
- automatically opened from the Windows temporary folder.
- This means that, for example, temporary Zip files created
- by opening e-mail attachments won't clutter the file list.
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- - A new button for Close Archive is available and can be added to
- the toolbar from the toolbar configuration dialog.
-
- - If you click the View button and multiple files are selected,
- WinZip will perform the specified action on all selected files;
- previously, WinZip only performed the action on the first
- selected file. For example, if you click View when two .DOC
- files are selected, both documents will be opened.
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- - The WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition is now a 32-bit
- program exclusively and no longer supports creation of 16-bit
- extractors.
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- - Winzip's Windows extensions are now 32-bit Explorer Shell
- extensions only. The File Manager extension is no longer
- supported.
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- - The System tab of the Configuration dialog has an option to
- change WinZip's associated file types.
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- - Miscellaneous improvements to online help.
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